the celebration napowrimo #10

There you sit drunk out of your mind

talk to me of California

As if I should know that place

Just because I am a gringa

Hey don’t bother me and go back to your wife

She is looking at me like I am a threat

And believe me buddy I am not

Did you say I’m going out to give myself to death?

Then I look round the party and see a mother and father

Dancing together with their little baby cradled between them

as the mariachi comes out to play "las manitas"

The celebration of the birth of you

Such love can you be cruel and condescending of course you can